Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1626
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/02/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Fiscal Policy (Grall) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete line 617
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 16. Paragraph (g) of subsection (3) of section
    6  39.407, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         39.407 Medical, psychiatric, and psychological examination
    8  and treatment of child; physical, mental, or substance abuse
    9  examination of person with or requesting child custody.—
   10         (3)
   11         (g) The department must shall adopt rules to ensure that
   12  children receive timely access to clinically appropriate
   13  psychotropic medications. These rules must include, but need not
   14  be limited to, the process for determining which adjunctive
   15  services are needed, the uniform process for facilitating the
   16  prescribing physician’s or psychiatric nurse’s ability to obtain
   17  the express and informed consent of a child’s parent or
   18  guardian, the procedures for obtaining court authorization for
   19  the provision of a psychotropic medication, the frequency of
   20  medical monitoring and reporting on the status of the child to
   21  the court, how the child’s parents will be involved in the
   22  treatment-planning process if their parental rights have not
   23  been terminated, and how caretakers are to be provided
   24  information contained in the physician’s or psychiatric nurse’s
   25  signed medical report, and the procedures to allow caretakers to
   26  schedule and facilitate medical appointments to ensure timely
   27  access to and the management of existing psychotropic medication
   28  prescriptions. For the purposes of this paragraph, the term
   29  "caretaker" means a person or entity in physical custody of a
   30  child placed pursuant to s. 39.401, to include a representative
   31  of a licensed child-caring agency or emergency shelter. The
   32  rules must also include uniform forms to be used in requesting
   33  court authorization for the use of a psychotropic medication and
   34  provide for the integration of each child’s treatment plan and
   35  case plan. The department must begin the formal rulemaking
   36  process within 90 days after the effective date of this act.
   37         Section 17. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.
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   39  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   40  And the title is amended as follows:
   41         Delete line 53
   42  and insert:
   43         cross-references; amending s. 39.407, F.S.; requiring
   44         the department to develop rules to include a specific
   45         process to ensure children receive timely access to
   46         clinically appropriate psychotropic medications;
   47         providing an effective date.